Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-23

the market In the same way butcher
within hundred miles of Chicago makes his
living out Of killing the dry cows OF the
neighborhood Armour comes to him and
says: Now, can sell you better meat than
this and at less price. There II no use IN
your killing these cows. Let them be sent 20
Chicago and sold.' The butcher, perhaps, re-
fuses. He can make more from selling the
COWS he buys from the farmers and the farm
ers can get more for the cows than If he ships
them to Chicago. Armour then establishes
his own butcher, and by o reduction Of the
rates of freight, which he can secure, he can
sell at such prices that the home butcher Is
crowded out OF the market. This will, l
think, be impossible under the new law, and
it il only an instance of many ways in which
it will benefit the smaller dealers of the coun-
try"
"Another instance occurs to me in the case
Of a cement establishment, which has been
working within 100 miles of Wichita, Kan.
The cement here made is as good as the Louis
vile cement, which is noted over the
United States. 1t was sold to advan-
tage In Wichita until the railroads put
down the freight on the Louisville
cement to such q degree that they were
able to send it to Wichita at about the same
cost that the Fort Scott cement could be sent
there, and the result was that the Louisville
cement caused the shutting up Of the Fort
Scott cement factory. The Louisville fac
tory had their goods carried 200 miles for
the same money for which the western
cement makers could get theirs carried 100
miles. Under the new law the western
cement makers would have the advantage in
freights over the territory nearest to them.
believe it will be to the benefit Of the coun-
try to build up industries wherever they can
be built rather than the congregation of
them in the largest cities. A distribution of
manufactures over the country will benefit
even as diversity of industries benefits any
country. The law might have to be changed
in some particulars, but think it has come
to stay"
"You spoke of Wichita. understand the
city is growing very rapidlya"
Eyes; Wichita is booming as much as any
city in the west. / was told by freight
agent of the Sante Fe road that it was almost
impossible to unload the cars fast enough of
building material, and that he had 1000 car
loads of this nature in his Wichita yards al
the time he spoke to me. Wichita has now
about 30, 900 people, and SO, 600 in the west is
equal to 100000 in the east. The people have
more enterprise about them, and with them
nothing is impossible. The growth in Kansas,
however, Ii nOO COilUIleu 10 w lCnAud- Livery
city in the state is growing, and real estate
values have been rising very rapidly.
II think there has been a real estate boom
over the whole country. and it seems to me it
is the result Of SO many people leaving the
country and going to the cities. There has
been a general exodus Of this nature within
the past few years, and the cities are just be-
ginning to appreciate it. Real estate as rule
is the last to rise in value and the last to fall
think the present values will continue until
panic or some extraordinary financial crisis
comes to depress them"
FRANK q. CARPENTER.